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Major-General Claude Martin (5 January 1735 – 13 September 1800) was a French army officer who served in the French and later British East India companies in colonial India. Martin rose to the rank of major-general in the British East India Company's Bengal Army.
Claude Martin was a French soldier, surveyor, architect, banker and philanthropist who lived in India from 1752 to 1800. He founded La Martiniere College in Lucknow, India, and left his fortune to three schools in India and France.
Major General Claude Martin was a French adventurer, born in Lyon in 1735. He had the unusual distinction of having served in the French Army, before joining the East India Company’s Army, and eventually commanded the cavalry of the Nawab of Oudh. From humble origins, he had accumulated a vast...
This book provides an up-to-date picture of the health of the world's tropical forests. Claude Martin, an eminent scientist and conservationist, integrates information from...
Sep 17, 2022 · Biography of Claude Martin, 1735-1800, architect and a colonel in the British Army in colonial India. "First edition published in 1992. Oxford India Paperbacks 1999." Includes bibliographical references (pages 230-233) and index.
Dr. Claude Martin is the author of the 2015 Report to the Club of Rome “On the Edge – The State and Fate of the World’s Tropical Rainforests”. He has been involved in tropical forest conservation and policy since the 1970’s as scientist, national park manager and as the Director General of WWF International from 1993 to 2005.
Mar 12, 2016 · Claude Martin is the author of the 2015 Report to the Club of Rome “On the Edge – The State and Fate of the World’s Tropical Rainforests”. He has been involved in tropical forest conservation and policy since the 1970’s as scientist, national park manager and as the Director General of WWF International from 1993 to 2005.
